English Taxi driver banned from driving... because he can't use apostrophes

A council has banned a driver from working as a cabbie - because he can't use apostrophes.

Stunned Laurence Kirk was denied a private hire driver licence after failing an English exam designed to test his grammar.

Although he has worked as a taxi driver before and knows the streets of his home town like the back of his hand, he was turned down because of his lack of grammatical knowledge.

'I used to be a taxi driver and I was a good and successful one', Mr Kirk said. 'But now the council are telling me I can't work as a taxi driver because I don't know how to use an apostrophe or where to put a semi-colon.

Re: English Taxi driver banned from driving... because he can't use apostrophes

Well, if he's too thick to know where to place such, maybe he shouldn't be allowed a Taxi-Licence but let's ensure that this goes nationwide and then we'll probably be driven around by on-the-ball driver's.

I count 4 of the buggers above so maybe I'm (there's another and another in this bit too) so maybe I could apply for said but as Sheffield is crawling with Paki-Taxi's (another) I probably don't (another) fit.